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Cheryl, As Eduard said, this will require a reinstall. The installation is not significantly more complex than a normal system upgrade, but you cannot use the automatic install process. If I recall correctly, the Licensed Internal Code is also for a specific primary language, and therefore must be replaced as part of your process, even if you remain on the same VRM of OS/400. *** Review the Software Installation manual and you will get an understanding of what you will have to do. You will need to order a new copy of OS/400 and LICPGMs under the new DBCS primary language. One of the feature codes under your 5769-SS1 determines the primary language, and you need to get IBM to change this to the one you want. Then, when you receive the order, you will want to verify that the new language code is on the media, for example on all the tapes/CDs where it used to say 2924 should now be 2938 (or whatever). For some reason, I think their default is to give you 2938 if you ask for English DBCS, so think about this before you order. If you switch to primary lang 2938, this is still English but it is all UPPER CASE MESSAGES. If you want to use DBCS and still see mixed-case messages, you may wish to use 2984 (I think that is the one) instead. If you use 2938, you may experience other little side effects, such as operators having to reply "I" instead of "i" or "I". Once you have a DBCS primary language installed, you can also have secondary languages of either DBCS or SBCS, so you may also want to do that to have different users run with different languages. IBM achieves this by installing multiple copies of QSYS. For example, QSYS will always contain objects in the primary language of your system, and then there will be additional libs for any secondary languages you have such as QSYS2924, QSYS2962, etc. Make sure you also order any desired secondary languages when you order your new OS/400. For ordinary workstation users, you then use a parm on the subsystem they run in to determine which, if any, secondary language library is in the front of their library list, and thus what kind of messages they see. However, some jobs do not get this choice - (I think) jobs in the controlling susbsystem such as your console. That's what I recall. Perhaps some others will fill in some of the details I may have omitted or not fully understood. -Marty -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]Namens cheryl.bisson@actstesting.com Verzonden: maandag 25 maart 2002 19:24 Aan: midrange-l@midrange.com Onderwerp: Changing Primary Language Hello All, Has anyone ever changed the primary language on their system? My system is set to 2924 English. It needs to switched to DBCS English. We are running at 4.5. I appreciate any information any of you can give. Thanks! Cheryl Bisson ACTS Testing
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